BBMF article

He did indeed, it was 50th anniversary of the first flight of the Spitfire on 5th March 1936. I saw him fly past out of the office window I was working in at the time.

Paul Day flew PM631 over London that year

I would try contacting them direct. I expect that is all recorded in their archives.
http://www.raf.mod.uk/bbmf/
Also their Facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/BBMF.Official
mmitch.

Folks, nothing to do with the article but does anyone know the aircraft and pilots who flew the BoBMF aircraft over london in 1986 to re-start the annual flights cancelled since 1959?

They don’t seem to mention the amount of work that is now shipped out as the RAF can’t or won’t do it.

There certainly have been some changes as regards the contracting out of major services since the closure of the maintenance units at RAF Abingdon & RAF St.Athan, but the BBMF do as much ‘in house’ as manpower allows, a major service to Hurricane LF363 was carried out at RAF Coningsby last year. As you correctly say, Trumper, the Daily Mail have not picked up on this & give the impression that all the work is done by the BBMF.
A Hurricane on fire? Good job they’ve never seen a Griffon starting when the un-burnt fuel lights up in the exhaust ports!
I bet ‘Parky’ is really proud of that nav light!:)
Regards, Rich.

Interesting that so many of the images are taken at Duxford and Humberside.

“Blazing squad: A fire in the Hurricane is seen during maintenance, caused by a problem with the priming pump”

Looks like the pump is working working ok to me.

Biggest nav light i’ve ever seen 😉

They don’t seem to mention the amount of work that is now shipped out as the RAF can’t or won’t do it.

The Daily Fail in incomplete or inaccurate reporting shocker!

They don’t seem to mention the amount of work that is now shipped out as the RAF can’t or won’t do it.